CVE-2017-14461
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
8.0
Description
A specially crafted email delivered over SMTP and passed on to Dovecot by MTA can trigger an out of bounds read resulting in potential sensitive information disclosure and denial of service. In order to trigger this vulnerability, an attacker needs to send a specially crafted email message to the server.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 2.3.0.1-1 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:2.2.34-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:2.2.34-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:2.2.34-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:2.2.34-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:2.2.34-1 |
References
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.